Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures

by Richard Dien Winfield

Overview

Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures provides a clear and philosophically engaging investigation of Hegel’s first masterpiece, perhaps the most revolutionary work of modern philosophy. The book guides the reader on an intellectual adventure that takes up Hegel’s revolutionary strategy of paving the way for doing philosophy without presuppositions by first engaging in a phenomenological investigation of knowing as it appears.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442223387
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/27/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	417
File size:	760 KB

About the Author

Richard Dien Winfield is Distinguished Research Professor of philosophy at the University of Georgia and the author of Reason and Justice; The Just Economy; Overcoming Foundations: Studies in Systematic Philosophy; Freedom and Modernity; Law in Civil Society; Systematic Aesthetics; Stylistics: Rethinking the Artforms After Hegel; The Just Family; Autonomy and Normativity: Investigations of Truth, Right and Beauty; The Just State: Rethinking Self-Government; From Concept to Objectivity: Thinking Through Hegel's Subjective Logic; Modernity, Religion, and the War on Terror; Hegel and Mind: Rethinking Philosophical Psychology; The Living Mind: From Psyche to Consciousness; and Hegel's Science of Logic: A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: Sense-Certainty
Lecture 3: Perception
Lecture 4: Understanding
Lecture 5: Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness
Lecture 6: The Freedom of Self-Consciousness: Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness
Lecture 7: Reason as Observation of Nature
Lecture 8: Reason as Observation of Self-Consciousness
Lecture 9: Reason as Self-Actualization of Self-Consciousness
Lecture 10: Reason as Individuality Real in and for itself
Lecture 11: Spirit and the Ethical Order
Lecture 12: Self-Alienated Spirit
Lecture 13: The Enlightenment
Lecture 14: Morality
Lecture 15: Nature Religion and the Religion of Art
Lecture 16: Revealed Religion
Lecture 17: Absolute Knowing
Works Cited
Index

Editorial Reviews

Winfield's book is a fresh look at an important text whose meaning is far from exhausted. . . .Winfield, in respect of the literature, gives a freer interpretation that seeks to reposition itself within the landscape of perpetually changing research on Hegel.

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